Earlier this month, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil revealed that he suffered a stroke last Christmas, leading to the band postponing its planned Las Vegas residency. Now, the veteran rocker has disclosed that he actually had three other strokes leading up to the “big one.”
Mötley Crüe are currently in the midst of the rescheduled residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM, running through an October 3rd show (tickets available here). The concerts were originally slated to take place this past spring, but were postponed due to an at-the-time undisclosed medical issue affecting Neil.
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In his interview with the Las Vegas-Review Journal a couple weeks ago, Neil revealed, “I had a stroke. My whole left side went out… I had to learn to walk again, and that was tough. The doctors said they didn’t think I’d be able to go back on stage again.”
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In a new conversation with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Neil shared more details about his medical battle, saying he may have recovered a lot sooner had he caught the “big” stroke sooner.
“It was Christmas night, and I went to sleep,” recalled Neil. “I woke up and I couldn’t get out of bed. I’m, like, ‘What’s going on?’ And my left leg wouldn’t work, and my left arm wouldn’t work. So I had to get help out of bed. I couldn’t push myself up to get myself comfortable in bed. And I had to have help. And slowly but surely, the sensation came back in my legs.”
He continued, “[My then-girlfriend] Rain has an aunt who’s a nurse, and she called her aunt, and she said, ‘This is what’s going on with Vince,’ and [her aunt] goes, ‘He’s had a stroke.’ And by then it was just too late to go to the hospital because you have to get [there] within, like, 12 hours or something. And I was just kind of, like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna go away. It’s gonna go away.’ … I thought, ‘Oh, well, it’ll come back in a little bit.’ But it didn’t. Yeah, that was the hard part. Then I went to the hospital. They said I had a stroke, and they go, ‘We can’t do anything for you now because you’ve already had it and you’ve gone past that time’ where they give you this drug — it makes it so you’re not numb on the side.”
As for what caused the stroke, Neil explained, “Well, they said that I had a blood clot in my leg that ran up through to my brain. And they showed me — I had a neurologist come out and they took x-rays and stuff, and you see I had scars in my brain. [And they said], ‘See that’s where you had a stroke.’”
The singer also found out that he’s actually had “four strokes throughout the years. Two of ’em I didn’t even know I had. One of ’em was a mini stroke that happened and I just lost feeling in my hand. And that was it. And I got over that pretty quickly. But then this last one, it was a big one.”
Asked by Trunk about how doctors knew he had four strokes, Neil responded, “Because they could see it in your brain. It’s scarred right around the same spot. I had four scars in my brain, and the neurologist said those are all strokes.”
Neil, who’s father died of a stroke in 2021, went through months of physical therapy to get back onstage. He performed a solo show in early August, and is currently rocking at “95 percent” with Mötley Crüe as they continue their Vegas residency. “There’s things that I can’t do on stage still,” he noted. “It’s hard to run back and forth on that stage. That stage is so huge. But I’m getting used to it.”
See a clip from Vince Neil’s interview with Eddie Trunk below.
#ICYMI on #TrunkNation – @thevinceneil was in studio w/@eddietrunk talking about the @MotleyCrue residency following suffering a stroke & he revealed that he’s actually had 4 strokes to this point. Go hear the full interview now on the @SIRIUSXM app:https://t.co/kIjdZTAXL7 pic.twitter.com/n4sChYsj7U
— Trunk Nation on SXM Faction Talk Channel 103 (@TrunkNationSXM) September 25, 2025
